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Primrose Riordan Three Canberra drone pilots filmed the Skyfire event at the weekend from a unique vantage point – 1500 feet up in the air – and with stunning results. Rob Morrison, the general manager of drone photography company Overall…

MicaSense, Inc. today unveiled the third generation of RedEdge™, an advanced multispectral camera optimized for use in drones. RedEdge advances the toolset available to modern growers and agronomists, empowering them to closely monitor and quickly respond to changes in their…

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems solutions, today announced that its Predator® B/MQ-9 Reaper® RPA fleet has achieved a historic milestone of one million…

In anticipation of the ICAO RPAS Symposium (Montreal, Canada – 23-25 March 2015), ICAO has made it possible to order the digital English edition of this important document. Click HERE for a link to the relevant online order form (Price: USD 195.00).…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Actually, it was a balloon. But the crash of one of Google’s “Loon” balloons for relaying Internet service was enough to have security forces summoned to a mountain township in…

Anwar Ahmad ABU DHABI // Recreational drones have been banned from sale in Abu Dhabi because they pose a risk to aviation. The ban was announced on Wednesday by the Abu Dhabi Business Centre, an affiliate of the Department of…

By Georgett Roberts A man flying a drone near the half-marathon finish line in lower Manhattan on Sunday set off a terrorism scare that sent cops scrambling by land, sea and air to investigate the mysterious aircraft, sources said. The unidentified…

Andrew Liszewski Inspired by that wonderful scene in Return of the Jedi where Luke and Leia race through the trees of Endor using speeder bikes, there’s a small group of enthusiasts who do the same thing using camera-equipped remote control drones. Like Adam…

The Kansas Department of Agriculture held the first in a series of discussions on the topic of unmanned aircraft systems featuring key players in its use, production and benefactors. In partnership with the Kansas Department of Transportation, KDA is holding…

by Chris Klick The Drak is the first forward swept RC aircraft that combines extreme durability with unmatched stability & energy efficient flight. About The Drak Project The Ritewing Drak is a visually stunning and durable remote control (RC) airplane design…

BY AINSLEY O’CONNELL Da-Jiang Innovations, maker of the popular Phantom quadcopter drones, is tracking toward another banner year. The company earned $500 million in revenue in 2014, according to The Verge, and expects to more than double that total in 2015, solidifying its…

by Jay Clemens Defense industry programmers are working to rewrite software on a Boeing-built unmanned aircraft prior to the drone’s flight in 2017 in order to protect the system from hacking, Nextgov reported Wednesday. John Launchbury, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s lead for…

Beneath seemingly calm waters sometimes lurks a deadly hazard, the riptide. These dangerous currents can pull a swimmer away from shore in moments. Many swimmers try to swim against the riptide; strength is quickly exhausted and the swimmers start to…

The editorial staff at sUAS News came up with the idea of producing a visual Airspace integration timeline for the benefit of the international UAS/RPAS community. Educating and giving back to the community we are a part of is important…

Elated by the successful completion of the first leg of ’round-the-world’ trip in a solar-powered aircraft, CEO of the Solar Impulse Project Andre Borschberg today said he and his partners wanted to develop its unmanned version. Solar Impulse 2, developed under the Project and…

Sentient awarded contract for Kestrel EO/IR automated detection software for NAVAIR MQ-8 Fire Scout program Sentient has delivered the first software licenses to NAVAIR as part of a deployment program for use in the Fire Scout Mission Control System. The…

By Perry Chiaramonte The makers of a state-of-the art airship have filed a $65 million lawsuit against the U.S. Navy after the helium-filled dirigible was crushed when part of the roof of the hangar where it was stored collapsed on it.…